ISBN: 9780470693353

Television Truths considers what we know about TV, whether we love it or hate it, where TV is going, and whether viewers should bother going along for the ride. This engaging volume, writ… More...

Television Truths considers what we know about TV, whether we love it or hate it, where TV is going, and whether viewers should bother going along for the ride. This engaging volume, written by one of television's best known scholars, offers a new take on the history of television and an up-to-date analysis of its imaginative content and cultural uses. Explores the pervasive, persuasive, and powerful nature of television: among the most criticized phenomena of modern life, but still the most popular pastime everWritten by John Hartley, one of television s best known scholarsConsiders how television reflects and shapes contemporary life across the economic, political, social and cultural spectrum, examining its influence from historical, political and aesthetic perspectivesProbes the nature of, and future for, television at a time of unprecedented change in technologies and business plansProvides an up-to-date analysis of content and cultural uses, from the television live event, to its global political influence, through to the concept of the TV citizen Maps out a new paradigm for understanding television, for its research and scholarship, and for the very future of the medium itself; PDF \ Morris Morley; Music, Stage & Screen > Film, TV & radio > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism, Cambridge University Press<

2008, ISBN: 9780470693353

Television Truths considers what we know about TV, whetherwe love it or hate it, where TV is going, and whether viewersshould bother going along for the ride. This engaging volume,written… More...

Television Truths considers what we know about TV, whetherwe love it or hate it, where TV is going, and whether viewersshould bother going along for the ride. This engaging volume,written by one of television´s best known scholars, offers a newtake on the history of television and an up-to-date analysis of itsimaginative content and cultural uses. * * Explores the pervasive, persuasive, and powerful nature oftelevision: among the most criticized phenomena of modern life, butstill the most popular pastime ever * Written by John Hartley, one of television´s best knownscholars * Considers how television reflects and shapes contemporary lifeacross the economic, political, social and cultural spectrum,examining its influence from historical, political and aestheticperspectives * Probes the nature of, and future for, television at a time ofunprecedented change in technologies and business plans * Provides an up-to-date analysis of content and cultural uses,from the television live event, to its global political influence,through to the concept of the ´´TV citizen´´ * Maps out a new paradigm for understanding television, for itsresearch and scholarship, and for the very future of the mediumitself Forms of Knowledge in Popular Culture eBooks > Fremdsprachige eBooks > Englische eBooks > Sach- & Fachthemen PDF 08.05.2008 eBook, John Wiley & Sons, .200<

ISBN: 9780470693353

Television Truths considers what we know about TV, whether we love it or hate it, where TV is going, and whether viewers should bother going along for the ride. This engaging volume, writ… More...

Television Truths considers what we know about TV, whether we love it or hate it, where TV is going, and whether viewers should bother going along for the ride. This engaging volume, written by one of television's best known scholars, offers a new take on the history of television and an up-to-date analysis of its imaginative content and cultural uses. Explores the pervasive, persuasive, and powerful nature of television: among the most criticized phenomena of modern life, but still the most popular pastime everWritten by John Hartley, one of television s best known scholarsConsiders how television reflects and shapes contemporary life across the economic, political, social and cultural spectrum, examining its influence from historical, political and aesthetic perspectivesProbes the nature of, and future for, television at a time of unprecedented change in technologies and business plansProvides an up-to-date analysis of content and cultural uses, from the television live event, to its global political influence, through to the concept of the TV citizen Maps out a new paradigm for understanding television, for its research and scholarship, and for the very future of the medium itself; EPUB; Music, Stage & Screen > Film, TV & radio > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism, Wiley<

ISBN: 9780470693353

Television Truths considers what we know about TV, whetherwe love it or hate it, where TV is going, and whether viewersshould bother going along for the ride. This engaging volume,written… More...

Television Truths considers what we know about TV, whetherwe love it or hate it, where TV is going, and whether viewersshould bother going along for the ride. This engaging volume,written by one of television's best known scholars, offers a newtake on the history of television and an up-to-date analysis of itsimaginative content and cultural uses.* * Explores the pervasive, persuasive, and powerful nature oftelevision: among the most criticized phenomena of modern life, butstill the most popular pastime ever* Written by John Hartley, one of television's best knownscholars* Considers how television reflects and shapes contemporary lifeacross the economic, political, social and cultural spectrum,examining its influence from historical, political and aestheticperspectives* Probes the nature of, and future for, television at a time ofunprecedented change in technologies and business plans* Provides an up-to-date analysis of content and cultural uses,from the television live event, to its global political influence,through to the concept of the "TV citizen"* Maps out a new paradigm for understanding television, for itsresearch and scholarship, and for the very future of the mediumitself E-Book, [PU: Wiley]<

2008, ISBN: 0470693355

In englischer Sprache. Verlag: John Wiley & Sons, List of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgments. 1. Television Truths (Argumentation of TV). Part I: Is TV True? (Epistemology of TV):. … More...

In englischer Sprache. Verlag: John Wiley & Sons, List of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgments. 1. Television Truths (Argumentation of TV). Part I: Is TV True? (Epistemology of TV):. 2. The Value Chain of Meaning. 3. Public Address Systems: Time, Space, and Frequency. 4. Television and Globalization. Part II: Is TV a Polity? (Ethics/Politics of TV):. 5. Television, Nation, and Indigenous Media. 6. A Television Republic?. 7. Reality and the Plebiscite. Part III: Is TV Beautiful? (Aesthetics of TV):. 8. From a "Wandering Booby" to a Field of Cows: TheTelevision Live Event. 9. Shakespeare, Big Brother, and the Taming of the Self. 10. Sync or Swim? Plebiscitary Sport and SynchronizedVoting. Part IV: What Can TV Be? (Metaphysics of TV):. 11. "Laughs and Legends" or the Furniture thatGlows? Television as History. 12. Television in Knowledge Paradigms. References. Index, PC-PDF, 304 Seiten, 304 Seiten, 1., Auflage, [GR: 9740 - Nonbooks, PBS / Medien, Kommunikation], [SW: - Medienwissenschaften], [Ausgabe: 1][PU:John Wiley & Sons], [PU: Wiley]<